It Could Have Happened to Anybody

As anyone with a nuance of moderation in their sensibility will have realised, there are all sorts of perfectly grown-up reasons why the CEO of Team Starmer might not have been informed that Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring was a security risk. The obvious one is that the great man's appointment as sucker-up in chief to the Trumpster and his head-tribble had been announced before the vetting was complete, and anyone attempting to undermine that decision would have risked losing their job and being denounced as an terrorist, an antisemite and a practitioner of extremist student politics. Another, not unrelated reason is that the Prime Minister at the time, Morgan McSweeney, was a protégé of his lordship and had no doubt personally interred some of the bodies that might just happen to come unburied of the great man did not get his way.

But let us not be uncharitable. Perhaps the simplest and most human reason for the lack of communication is that the civil servants in charge of the vetting would be aware of the CEO of Team Starmer having been more or less connected with the Labour Party between 1997 and 2010; that during that glorious period he presumably read the newspapers now and again; that Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring had been very publicly ejected from two previous roles because he was too crooked for even the Blairites to brazen out; and that the CEO of Team Starmer had gone ahead and announced his ambassadorship anyway. Given such political sure-footedness, it's difficult to see how the results of a mere vetting process could have made much difference in any case.